Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
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... gave a view - holloa when he saw Kitty Coloony , and she jumped out and began to dance a jig ; and Fred , who was a lively bird , joined her , and there they were capering away on the grass when I came up . ' What does it all mean ...
... gave a view - holloa when he saw Kitty Coloony , and she jumped out and began to dance a jig ; and Fred , who was a lively bird , joined her , and there they were capering away on the grass when I came up . ' What does it all mean ...
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... gave it up ; but at the band she used to make remarks on the people in a loud voice , and stare impudently at the ladies and laugh in their faces , and turn round and sometimes call out things after them , so that I forbade her to go to ...
... gave it up ; but at the band she used to make remarks on the people in a loud voice , and stare impudently at the ladies and laugh in their faces , and turn round and sometimes call out things after them , so that I forbade her to go to ...
Pagina 23
... gave him her hand like a stage empress , and he kissed it and said , ' Relent ! relent ! and fly with me to love and joy . ' Then she put up her handkerchief to her eyes with one hand , and with the other stroked his filthy hair , and ...
... gave him her hand like a stage empress , and he kissed it and said , ' Relent ! relent ! and fly with me to love and joy . ' Then she put up her handkerchief to her eyes with one hand , and with the other stroked his filthy hair , and ...
Pagina 35
... gave a gasp and turned deadly pale ) ; but I needn't say thought , for I thought of no- thing but you , and how I loved you , at the time . I had considered myself a married man - miserably married to a bad woman , whom I hadn't seen ...
... gave a gasp and turned deadly pale ) ; but I needn't say thought , for I thought of no- thing but you , and how I loved you , at the time . I had considered myself a married man - miserably married to a bad woman , whom I hadn't seen ...
Pagina 60
... gave it you now you would , according to your own statement , have got all you wanted - you would have no inducement to persevere ; therefore you shall earn it . Come back safe and victorious out of the fire and out of the water , and ...
... gave it you now you would , according to your own statement , have got all you wanted - you would have no inducement to persevere ; therefore you shall earn it . Come back safe and victorious out of the fire and out of the water , and ...
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Pagina 245 - Too late ; the chance was thine, but now 'tis mine — the roses all are dead." Through the livelong night this infernal jingle held possession of my fevered brain. Now and then I woke up, and, as if to exorcise the demon suggesting the evil refrain, roared out, " To-morrow the die shall be cast." In vain — back it came, spoken now by Burridge, now by Badger, now by Lady Rose. It was set to music at last, and Tom Finney and Bill Whytock sung it over a pot-house table, to the air of the
Pagina 25 - I would rrr-rend him limb from limb,' and he rolled his eyes and gnashed his teeth like an ogre. ' Would you 'i ' said I, stepping out. ' Well, here I am — rend away!' Wasn't the Jew taken aback ! You should have seen his face. Then I took him by the scruff of the neck and kicked him up and down the room, and then I got a cutting whip and let into him till he bellowed like a mad bull, and I took the butt and crashed into his head and face with it, and bundled him to the window when I was tired...
Pagina 70 - The pay of a captain, a heavily-mulcted £200 a-year, and £300 a-year of my own in the Funds — it was a case of very simple addition; and this was all I had, and all I could ever calculate upon as a certainty. That was bad; it was desperately bad. The failure of the " three-hundred-a-year marriages," so much talked of once, has no doubt been painfully demonstrated long ago.
Pagina 148 - Major, who was to command us, and who had gone on a month's leave, joined the detachment, he hoped I would " stick very close " to it, especially as the other officers were very young. To ask for leave was therefore impossible, and there was nothing for it but to await the Major's arrival with what patience I might command. The idea of proposing to Lady Rose by letter occurred to me once or twice in my most desperate moments, but I discarded it ; there was an ill-omened smack of the sneaking and...